Silvia Bruti is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Pisa, and received her PhD in English from the University of Pisa. Her research interests include text-linguistics, discourse analysis, (historical) pragmatics, corpus linguistics, translation, and language teaching. She has published widely in these areas and is the (co-)editor of several collections of essays on reformulation and paraphrase, lexicography and translation, and audiovisual translation. She has recently investigated issues in intercultural pragmatics and audiovisual translation, with her most recent work being a monograph on the translation of politeness (2013).